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vol ix third series salisbury n g january 3 1878 nm1 mt veekok x c dec 10 1877 p t watchman :â€” that a very large proportion perhaps ae 1 ";'"- v m fonr t lfthg of roaukind from the merchant millionaire to the humblest street jvddler from li nionarchial and presidential beads of governments to the cross-roads post-masters aud pot-house politicians from the general and commodore in con trol of vast armies and navies to the rank ] ( .^ private and marine from the farmer aud herdsman of thou^nds of acres and nvyraids of cattle tojne peasant laborer ol a three acre potato-patch from the brightest luminaries and professors of science and leapmng to dm country school master from hie richest to the poorest a lid from the highest to the lowest in all professions and occupations in life are destined to failure in their daily avoca tions and speculations is a well-known ami constantly evident and acknowledged tsm lloir they fail in such bewildeiingly large numbers is a matter not quite so patentable and plain â€” it is assignable to an innumerable variety of minor causes in length and breath of logical dimensions in light and shade of biographical col oring vicing with the endlessly chang ing forms of the clouds in the heavens and the magical tints that diveisify every por tion of die widest autumn landscape yet ifwc were to attempt to condense these causes into three great classes and to express diem as briefly and inclusively as possible we might say they are to be attributed either to the fate the mistake or tlic mismanagement of each individual's business 1 use the word fate here syn onymously with divine providence and not in a superstitious sense in the first place god does not make and does not permit every man to succeed â€” here is no chance for all to be wealthy and honored where diversity is the basis of the eternal's wise and beneficient plan secondly men mistake their callings so often the fox-hunting and frolicking priests of some countries never had nor heard a call to preach â€” they are clearly j tui generis â€” the rogues are really aiming at no avocation rightly â€” therefore they are outside the pale of our consideration we only propose to consider men who are not impostors and who are doing or profess to be doing something hona fide \ the professor very late in life has some j times regretted that he was not born and 1 reared a ploughman the poet who has j straggled vainly for eminence when his } gray hairs are thickening wishes himself | a boy again that he might begin the study of euclid and fight his way up to a college chair iiirmnthcmatics instead of trying to cultivate a barren fancy into competition with homer and shakespeare ' such are the sad specimens of that old old story : "//' / couldonly lire over again ; what might i not /Â« :'" another immense crowd of our fellow ! creatures will in spite of all moral pre cedent and all good advice drink keep bad company idle around get into all ; sorts of scrapes and mismanage and neg lect their business generally asifil could lake care of itself albeit there are many men of talent and genius belonging to this class they deserve little pity sympathy or help they are the world's business reprobates â€” hound to fail because for sooth they will hare it so ! it is the second of the aforementioned classes over whom the aogels weep and for whom the hearts of good men bleed poor lost wandering travellers they have taken the wrong road perhaps a kind father and mother when they were little children gave them the very direc tions in implicitly following which they have lost their way ! how sad ! such a boy was reared and educated for the pul pit â€” he is a third-rate preacher but would make a splendid engineer â€” he talks to a listless sleepy set of hearers every sun day such another one is in a great city up in a garret trying to eke out a scanty living and to keep his wife and children from downright starvation by writing for the press if he had staid on the farm where he was born he might now have l>eeii in the midst of plenty â€” he was not made to write books but to maul rails and hoe potatoes yon briefless poverty stricken lawyer is in that line because his father was an eminent jurist and wanted him to be one that old-maid school ma'am ought to have married that stout young tanner when she was twenty-four gone to work and let spectacles and liter ary labor alone that broken merchant ought to have been a minister â€” that min ister a merchants that lawyer a doctor â€” that doctor a lawyer but what is tin chief lesson to parents from these fail ures why learn your children all to work and if practicable bind them to some good trade â€” that is the road to health and independence there is too much so-called higher edu cation of the hands and heart â€” too many books anil high schools for poor children to make them above honest manual labor all should learn to read write and count but the clerkships and professions are too full learn them to work and they can shake their fists at grim want any day e p ii the shot inn volley the following from the hillsboro re corder goes directly to the mark and every shot tells : the national republican rail very much fears he negro race will go down under the shot gun policy of the south we are half inclined to agree with the republican we met a day or two ago half a dozen stout negro men each one mounting a shot gun and all bound into the woods to kill time or squirrels or something else ; and we meet some every hiy every negro man in the south owns a bhot gun ; and that shot gun is killing them oil as fast as idleness produces want disease and disease death this is the way die negro is going but it is by the shol gun in his own bauds ex-governor pinchback of louisiana has addressed an open letter to governor nicholls resigning his place as united states senator from that si-.iii the citizens of i.incolnfon are paying by subscription for having the river drag ged for the body of mr harrisoll i ; rice who wan drowned on the jml tilt norah's new year it was xew years eve the streets were tluonged with pedestrians the jin gle of sleigh bells was ever and anon heard and all the world seemed to have forgotten care and taken a holidav but not so there were sad faces among the merry ones the poor and wretched jost led against the gay and happy ; and this life-picture like all others had its dark back-ground looking in at the brilliantly lighted window of a confectioner stood a little girl her face blue with cold and hunger her eyes wistful and pathetic she had on a light calico dress shoes that were too large for her and a strange kind of garment half shawl half cloth so worn and patched that one could not tell its original shape or color her age was not over nine or ten yet she seemed more like a little old woman than a child there was an air of wisdom in the way she turned her head and wrinkled up her forehead and pressed her lips together as she gazed at the confectioner's candies and cakes n if she thought them all very pretty but at the same time very unsub stantial once or twice the child-nature showed itself in her eyes but was quickly followed by an expression of gravity and sorrow touching in one so young finally she turned away with a sigh and at that instant the confectioner's door opened and a lady richly dressed came out something in the child's face or looks attracted her attention she stop ped drew the shivering little figure to ward the light and scanned its curiously what is your name dear 1 she asked kindly xorah was the answer given in a low voice and with a look of wonder at the questioner xorah !" echoed the lady turning pale xorah what xorah brady ma'am oh !" and an expression partly of re lief partly of disappointment swept over the listener's face then she slipped sonic money into the child's hand and whispered : spend it as you please dear it is a xew year's gift xorab's cheeks flushed and she drew back a little proudly i can not take it ma'am she answer ed in even steady tones l'appn would be angry if i did angry that you accept a gift why so ?" because we are poor and when people give us things he says it's out of charity but is that any reason for refusing them ?" yes for papa and i are independent and had rather earn our own money the little figure straightened itself with an air of dignity almost womanly you are a strange child was the re ply and the lady looked interested and amused tell me where you live ?*' the street and number were named and then xorah raised her honest blue eyes and said softly please don't think me ungrateful ma'am you are very kind indeed only that papa has seen better days and it hurts him now to be poor or i might perhaps keep it and she handed back the money with a wist ful little glance that spoke volumes have you a mother dear question ed the other the blue eyes filled with tears xo ma'am she answered in a quivering voice mamma died three years ago why was it that a throb of pain stirred the listener's heart at these words ? what was xorab's mother to her she felt drawn toward the child she hardly knew why ; drawn too toward the dead mother and the strange proud father xorab's eyes xorab's name were like those of a sister she had lost by a separation al most worse than death she had never forgotten it and to-night the memory of that olden time softened her heart and made her pitiful toward the grief of others but all this while her carriage stood wait ing with a white-haired old gentleman inside and the coachman impatiently stamping his feet i must leave you she whispered to xorah at last longing to clasp the little figure to her breast i shall come and see you soon may i not ?*' then seeing the child hesitated to reply she added are you afraid papa will object tell him charity has nothing to do with it but it is for my own sake and because you remind me of some one 1 loved years ago that i wish to come xorah was a hospitable little soul and the beautiful lady had completely won her heart papa will be glad to see you she said simply and i too thank you dear then moved by a sudden impulse the lady stooped down and kissed her the coachman looking on rubbed his eyes and thought that per haps xorah was some princess in disguise and so she was and by a right more roy al than that of blood or money what child was that ?" questioned the white-haired old geutleman as the lady took her seat in the carriage and bade the coachman drive on some beg gar with a tale of distress that touched your sympathy ?'' he looked at her fond ly and in a manner that showed she was the one woman of the world to him sot a beggar and the lady smiled and told how norah had refused the money but the child interested me strangely she has eyes like those of the little xorah i left in ireland and for a minute i had a faint hope that my search was at last ended but ber father's name is brady and yours was o'couuell said the gentleman and it was not here but to france that he migrated i know and a touch of impatience came into her voice it was but for a minute as i said afterward i under stood how impossible it was she sighed bitterly and went on : i wonder if this is to be the punishment for my sin and that girlish sin and folly as you call it dear wife has been expiated long since was the answer let the past bury its dead do not make ynrself mis erable by raking up its ashes i am not unhappy she said softly why should i be every wish is grati fied save one â€” that of reconciliation with my parents and perhaps it is right this should be denied me has it ever occurred to you that they may be dead asked the gentleman looking at her compassionately many times she answered but i cannot make myself believe it something seems to tell ine they are living and in want oh that is because the agent we sent over to ireland told us your father had lost his property you would naturally think of him as poor after that yes and when pride is joined to pov erty the struggle is the harder father was a strange man ; stern and hauty and obstinate but under the harsh exterior hid one of the warmest hearts that ever j beat i can understand why he left ire land so suddenly and cover up all traces of i his flight lest those who had known him in | prosperity should witness his humilation i lie could not have borne that ; it would have been the added drop of bitterness that would have choked him butmoth : er was different ; so meek and gentle and was the only living person who knew how ' to manage him every one else was sure to see the worst side of his nature ah yes ! 3011 have told me of her be | fore but i cannot understand kate i why she never answered your letters you were but seventeen when you eloped ; with that villian â€” a mere child â€” and surely she might have given you some i words of help and comfort when your heart was almost broken by his baseness i true he was your wedded husband and held you by a bond stronger than that of parents ; but their silence was cruel and i cannot forgive them for it you do not know how i have tried their love my father warned me against the man my mother told me of his false hood and wickedness and i deceived be i frayed them both oh i was guilty of such base subterfuge it seemed as if a demon had entered into me and i was no longer my real self whatever they said ' only increased my obstinacy and made me more infatuated with the object of their censure besides you must remem ber my father had reason to think i rob bed hiiti in the night of my departure though the theft was committed without my knowledge and by the wretch into , whose hands i had trusted my honor and j happiness that i could have been so blinded to his real character seems im i possible now ; but he had a winning plausible manner and i was vain and foolish fond of flattery and admiration " you fled to america at once did you not and wrote home from there yes my husband's villainy was first revealed to me on board of the ship that took us over i accidently came across the money he had stolen from my father and recognized the purse that held it as one i had knitted myself i asked for an explanation and he gave it boldly gloating over the idea of what he called a just and righteoous vengeance instead of the hateful crime it seemed to me it was there i found out there had been a feud of long standing between him and my father and that it was for this he had ; married me and thus struck his enemy to the heart though the villain is dead it makes my blood boil to think of him kate but did you not mention all this in your let ters â€” the vile plot the stolen money !" yes and more too i told of my deso late condition in new york alone and friendless for as boon as we landed i fled , from the wretch whom the law had made i my husband he followed me persecut ' id me prevented my obtaining any re spectable employment ; and oh ! the ter rible life that i led those two years that i he lived it is dreadful to say it but his j death was actually a relief and they neverauswered your letters , said her husband indignantly 1 cannot understaiidjsueh vindictiveness the first one was returned unopened she answered ; of the others i never had | any tidings but i am sure they would i have forgiven me had they known it all i it may be the letters were intercepted i the suspicion has occurred to me lately j that they fell into 1113 husband's bands ; and that he re-mailed and stamped that first one to deceive me and prevent niv ..... ' writing others don't call that man your husband i kate it makes me shiver he was capa ble of anything and 1 have no doubt your suspicion was correct but surely you wrote after his death ?" i did not she replied i was so utterly heart-broken by all that had oc curred as to believe myself an outcast from love and kindness forever more you know what i suffered and how 1 went from place to place vainly seeking employment the stage was the only means of livelihood that offered itself ah ! can i ever forget from what a life you rescued me the humble ballet-girl but remember you said it was from love not gratitude that you became my wife for i am old enough to be your father kate and hal yon refused me what i craved would have adopted you as my daughter old in years but young in heart she answered if my first marriage was a wretched mistake my second is indeed blest and crowned with such happiness as i never hoped to enjoy the carriage had reached the suburbs of the city by this time and now stopped before a large house with an old-iishion ed hospitable aspect very invitiu home at last !" said the geitleman jumping out as nimbly as if he iad been younger come kate she followed and leaning on his arm went up the steps and into the house xo further allusion was made hy either side to the subject of their conversation during the drive but the thoughts of one kept continually recurring tc the child she had seen in front of the corfectioner's and when kate hillard closed her eyes in sleep that night it was with the firm re solve to see xorab's father eariy next day and find out who he was and whence he came for xorab's words xo-ah's looks seemed like an echo from the past and had in them something of the spirit she ! remembered xorab's thoughts were as fill of her as ; hers of xorah such a levely lady ! mused the child as she hurried home i don't think papa wouldhave minded 1 my taking the money if he could have [ heard all she said and seen exactly how ' she looked it is xew year's eve and â€¢ what if she were not a real lady but just some fairy about doing good i saw a nice old gentleman inside her car j riage though and a live coachman on top j i guess she's flesh and blood like the rest i only kinder and more thoughtful it was towards a wretched quarter of the city that xorah bent her steps and the tenament where she stopped was old and dilapidated and crowded with human beings she ascended the stars and found her way to a room dimly-lighted by a tallow candle the door stood open and she â– entered softly then shading her eyes with her hand she looked around there was a bed in one corner and upon that lay a man asleep poor papa she thought ; he is tired out the doctor says he ought not to work but he will and i can't help it i almost wish 1 had taken the money it would have bought a chicken and i could have made him some broth to-morrow but he wouldn't have eaten it if he knew how 1 got it oh dear it is so hard to be poor and have a sick father she bustled about a little setting the room to rights and tried to look cheerful though she was down-hearted but the tears came in spite of her when she went to the cupboard and looked iu to see what there was for breakfast only a few dry crusts and a small piece of bacon if it had not been xew year's eve their povertj would not have seemed so bitter she had gone hungry before and never com ' plained but now lookiug at her pale worn father and remembering the sad christmas they had spent heart rebelled and she almost doubted the gooduess of cod who let poor people suffer thus then her mother's sweet face rose up be fore her as if in reproach and she folded her hands together and breathed a prayer for help and comfort poor xorah ! a child in years but weighed down with a woman's cares old in trouble and the wisdom born of it it was well that she had early learned where to look forguid â– ance when sore and distressed and buf \ feted by the world i tier father did not awake and sh finally took up the bit of candle and re ! tired to an inner room hardly larger than ! a closet its only furniture was a little cot-bed into that she crept after un dressing herself and soon fell asleep she : dreamed of an engel with the face of the i beautiful lady who in some magical way ; had been changed into 1 fairy all spang les and lace the sun was nearly an hour high when she awoke the next morning though her room was still dark for it had butonelittle window high up that opened on a brick wall but she rubbed her eyes and look j ed around as if bewildered for surely some one bent over her and whispered jspftly little sister little sister she sat up in bed and she felt two arms clasp her close and warm kisses rain down on brow and lips and checks she was not afraid only wondered what it all meant and whether she was really in own little room or iu fairyland or in heaven dress quickly dear said the voice she had heard fust there is a gentle man waiting for you the voice was that of the beautiful lady and so was the form that she recognized by the dim light half believing it a dream still xorah slipped on her clothes and with her hand clasped in that of her companion opened the door of the other room then she saw the white-haired old gentleman she remembered so well and her father talking cosily together ; and if she had been puzzled and bewild ed before she was even more so now come here daughter said mr o'grady or o'connell as he was called thereafter the xew year has brought you a sister what do you mean papa v xorah stammered tell her kate whispered the white haired gentleman mr o'connell had heard the story be fore but he listened again as the sweet voice trembled in its narration and once wiped a tear furtively from her eyes my sister my own own sister cried xorah joyfully clasping kate close then in a low voice she added the last word mamma spoke was your name at this tears came into the eyes of both and mr hillard seeing them rose hasti ly and said come come kate it is time we were going your father is ready and so is xorah you can talk all you want to afterward mr o'connell's reluctance to accept his daughter's hospitality was finally over come and he consented that xorah and him self should make part of her household his pride was great and had led him to assume a false name and almost make a martyr of xorah but he had begun to have faint perception that a great deal of error and selfishness were mangled with it and was ready to make amends he soon afterward recovered his health and through mr hillard's instrumentality obtained employment at once lucrative and honorable so that he was enabled to support both himself and xorah indepen dently xorah grow move like a child and less like a woman under the new inflencesby which she was surrounded but she was none the less true and honest and her sister rejoiced to see the signs of care fade out of the young face that had once been so sadl mature but neither xorah nor kate nor mr o'connell ever forgot the day that usher ed in their new-found happiness and to them the xew year brings greater joy than any other holiday a max who saw a mule die ain't it a curious thing that nobody ever sees a mule die remarked an old teamster in g-umbert & webber's saloon xo man living ever saw a mule die i s'pose !' thus remarked mr daniels lighting a fresh cigar in 1850 i was mining on the south fork of the yuba and it came my turn to cook for my gang we took turns each week you know well i was going to show how economical i could run the commissary i went and bought a peck of dried apples ; they were all stuck together iu a lump but i got em jam med into a pot poured in some water and started the fire presently a fevr of em began to rise up to the top of the pot and so i skimmed em off and put em in a pan pretty soon some more bulged up and i skimmed them off and put em in a pan the first thing i knew after i had skimmed that blasted pot a while i had to get another pan and then another and by the time i got four pans heaped up dang my skin if there wasn't more apples in the pans than there was iu the pot that is i thought so at the time i kept getting more pans and buckets and lard cans and all the time plumb frightened death for fear some of the boys would come in and see how extravagant i was for i had been blowin how cheap i could run the mess the blasted apples still kept comin out of the pot i put some papers on the floor and covered em with fruit and by jove the place looked like a santa clara fruit drying establishment and the pot was still bilin full what has that got to do with a mule dyin ?' wait a minute i'm comin to the mule finally i got desperate and dump ed over twelve bushels of the apples back of the cabin behind a tree iu about an hour i heard a devil of a noise and ran out what do you suppose i found ? why a four hundred dollar mule kicking in the agonies of death the apples were all gone ; the mule nearly so he was swelled up like a balloon and the first thing i knew he busted pledge my word gentlemen he exploded like a giant pow der blast and brought the whole cam to the place i kept still ; they could not find the mule and it cost em 1 to ad vertise a reward for him in the sacramen to union about two weeks afterwards they caught a couple of greasers hauging round and they put it up that they stole the mule so they hung em i was there but i did not say a word for fear the boys would find out how extravagant i had run the commissary let's have something the holston annual mktuodist con pbrbkcb adopted a petition to the gen eral conference of the methodist episcopal church south w hich meets next may ask ing that the name of the church be changed to episcopal methodist church it is prob able that the general conference will also be asked to invite the xorthern methodist church to withdraw from the south not withstanding the settlement lately made by commissions of the two boica rev j i miller's lecture ve find in the shcpherdstown reg ister the following abstract which we commend to the attention of the voun a morbid sensitiveness sometimes pre vents the truth from being spoken we are pleased to see such men as revs miller and fry striking such successful blows at sonic of the secret crimes of the day h at a meeting of the young men's christian association of staunton va on tuesday night of last week rev j i miller principal of the staunton female seminary delivered an address upon the subject of integrity from which we extract the following plain and wholesome truths and we hope that every young lady who reads this article wltt profit by it another foe to integrity is the low estimate placed upon purity of princi ple and of life in the young and es pecially the young men there are those who not only countenance the idea but will contend that we ought not to expect that the young men will fail to sow their wild oats and that one species of this oats is the departure from the path of purity yes there are men mature in life men who from their general character family connec tions standing in society and even the church we ought to expect better things of are not slow to give currency to the most degrading most demoraliz ing declaration that all young men are guilty of this form of immorality a declaration which the speaker with all the earnestness of his nature pro nounced an infamous slander and yet this opinion has found such general currency that young ladies have come to the conclusion that if they were to wait till the hand of a mnn of pure principle and life was offered them they would not be blessed with a life partner if this were true said the speaker i would say to you with all the inten sity of my nature live and die unbles sed with the love and companionship of a husband rather than wed moral and often physical loathsomeness and here i must be indulged with a remark or two strictly germain to the subject but which from false notions of delicacy are too ofteu suppressed it is this though i have the highest respect and confidence in the integrity the virture of woman as a class yet it has often been a matter of inexplicable mystery to mc that young girls of un sullied purity themselves will coun tenance yea encourage the attentions welcome to their parlors and tables young men whom they can but know are debauchees my advice to every lady is shun such characters as yon would shun the infected district of the plague or association with the leper give them to understand in no unmistakable way that you will shun them as they icould ehun and despite you guilty of o like sin nothing does more to break down the integrity of our young men in this fearful phase of it than the encouragement given by otherwise good people of a commu nity to the notion that such deviation from virtue's path must be expected in them ; and worse that young ladies pure as the virgin snow in life and character will knowingly smile on and encourage the attentions of such had i a daughter i would a thousand times rather see her arrayed in the drapery of death than that she should be united in the tenderest dearest of human ties to such a beastialised spec imen of humanity from my heart of hearts i pity the young bride whose snowy attire in which she is led to the altar is strikingly signifi cant of the purity of her heart but who stands there to be joined to one whose low views and base practices more truly fits him for the compan ionship only of a very different class of characters a man with such views and life can never be fitted for the high and ennobling companion ship of an intelligent refined virtu ous loving woman but while a deep ardent sympathy for the noble daugh ters of our land tempts me to linger on a phase of my topic so intimately connected with their dearest interests for time not to say highest hopes for eternity duty to my audience requires me to advance rev j b anthony of mt pleas ant n c has accepted a call to the giles charge and will enter on his duties at once his address wil 1 , therefore be newport giles co va rev anthony's ministrations in oth er places has been blessed with gooi results he is a close sudent ; and makes faithful use of the catechism in preparing the young for church mem bership the neglect of catechisatiot in this synod for so long a time has rendered the efforts in this direction made during the last few years a dif ficult and slow work may the bless ing of god rest on bio anthony labors 0 c paper arstriax cvtiioi.ursm._the tndspend cnk ays the old catholics of austria have just been granted legal recognition by the minister of education and worship rhey made application for recognition sev eral years ago but the government refused to accede to the request unless they would acknowledge themselves as sccedcrs from the roman catholic church-an admission which they were of course loth to make l-ii which they have finally made and their congregations whicli are more numerous than one would expect have been placed on an independent footing the ocrman cor respondent of the london guardian says in the northern corner of bohemia at and about warnsdorf there is a very compact body of 25.000 old catholics vienna and its dependencies number another 7000 and at ried and steier on the bavarian border 5000 more in vienna the barrator chnrck has lieen given for their use very latch two austrian priests have turned their backs on their home 0 has otmn the ouf catholics at breslau ; and the other a ca thedral preacher at linz has got married iu breslau but of priests at work in austria in the old catholic cause there cannot be more than half a dozen the stah ix tiik east a correspon dent of the philadelphia inquirer corrects a common mistake in regard to the star in the kast and the usual manner of christ mas decorations in our homes he says : owing to bad punctuation in the sacred text the magi or wise men who are also described as the wise men of the east are made to say for we have seen his star in the east ;" whereas it should read for we in the east have seen his star the star was seen in their west they journeyed westward toward judea from their eastern clinics moreover the word translated star is a misnomer it really means a meteor or bright luminous object a pillar of tire one tradition speaks of it as a lri gantic cross of tire the latter symbol has been sometimes adopted in our churches and is not only appropriate but symbolical it may be placed either in the eastern or western portion of the church but no star of greens should be tolerated albemarle and chesapeake canal donn piatt in a recent letter to the cin cinnatti enquirer says the huron disaster has developed the fact heretofore unknown to the country and of course neglected by the government that from chesapeake bay to the south end of pamlico sound there is an inland sea and river naviga tion now open to vessels of not over five hundred tons by which all the dangers of cape hatteras can be avoided an ex penditure of a hundred thousand dollars on the part of the government in dredg ing a few channels would open this route to vessels of the heavier tonage and following the line of rivers and sounds connecting with them the gulf of mexico can be reached the advantages to bo gained are great iu the way of trade but the important fact is that with this im provement a long line of dangerous coast could be guarded by iron-dads that are found not to be seaworthy torpedoes and the safe cheap transportation of troops provisions and materials of war provided and so escape the heavy expenditure of costly fortifications for which we have no guns and a navy for which we have no money nor it appears brain or honesty we sincerely hope that the attention of congress as well as the country will be attracted to this development and that measures will be inaugurated to take ad vantage of the facilities offered the fede ral government for inland navigation in eastern carolina they are unquestion ably of national importance as will some day be found out â€” ral observer a wicked hoax a fun loving brooklyn man removed the setting from his big gold ring the oth er day leaving a marked and decided va cancy he gets on a street car holds his hand so that the ring must be seen and pretty soon a man bends forward and re marks : excuse me sir but you have lost the setting from your ring so 1 have replied the owner as he looks around on the floor every passenger began to peer around and the man who made the discovery finally asks was it a valuable set ?" it was a thousand dollar diamond is the calm reply there is another move on the part ol the passengers some look along the seat some under it and some make a dive for pear buttons aud other small objects when did you miss it asked the fust man as the search weakened a little a year aud a half ago when i was at i tending camp-meeting in illinois !" is the sad reply then every passenger straighteus up every eye looks into vacancy and not the faintest smile can be seen on any face a i person boarding the car just then would j wonder what great man in the city had just died and if the passengers wen on , their way to take a sad forwell look at \ his remains materials are being collected for a h og ranln nf bishop 1 nes by msdaj filter the carolina watchman

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vol ix third series salisbury n g january 3 1878 nm1 mt veekok x c dec 10 1877 p t watchman :â€” that a very large proportion perhaps ae 1 ";'"- v m fonr t lfthg of roaukind from the merchant millionaire to the humblest street jvddler from li nionarchial and presidential beads of governments to the cross-roads post-masters aud pot-house politicians from the general and commodore in con trol of vast armies and navies to the rank ] ( .^ private and marine from the farmer aud herdsman of thou^nds of acres and nvyraids of cattle tojne peasant laborer ol a three acre potato-patch from the brightest luminaries and professors of science and leapmng to dm country school master from hie richest to the poorest a lid from the highest to the lowest in all professions and occupations in life are destined to failure in their daily avoca tions and speculations is a well-known ami constantly evident and acknowledged tsm lloir they fail in such bewildeiingly large numbers is a matter not quite so patentable and plain â€” it is assignable to an innumerable variety of minor causes in length and breath of logical dimensions in light and shade of biographical col oring vicing with the endlessly chang ing forms of the clouds in the heavens and the magical tints that diveisify every por tion of die widest autumn landscape yet ifwc were to attempt to condense these causes into three great classes and to express diem as briefly and inclusively as possible we might say they are to be attributed either to the fate the mistake or tlic mismanagement of each individual's business 1 use the word fate here syn onymously with divine providence and not in a superstitious sense in the first place god does not make and does not permit every man to succeed â€” here is no chance for all to be wealthy and honored where diversity is the basis of the eternal's wise and beneficient plan secondly men mistake their callings so often the fox-hunting and frolicking priests of some countries never had nor heard a call to preach â€” they are clearly j tui generis â€” the rogues are really aiming at no avocation rightly â€” therefore they are outside the pale of our consideration we only propose to consider men who are not impostors and who are doing or profess to be doing something hona fide \ the professor very late in life has some j times regretted that he was not born and 1 reared a ploughman the poet who has j straggled vainly for eminence when his } gray hairs are thickening wishes himself | a boy again that he might begin the study of euclid and fight his way up to a college chair iiirmnthcmatics instead of trying to cultivate a barren fancy into competition with homer and shakespeare ' such are the sad specimens of that old old story : "//' / couldonly lire over again ; what might i not /Â« :'" another immense crowd of our fellow ! creatures will in spite of all moral pre cedent and all good advice drink keep bad company idle around get into all ; sorts of scrapes and mismanage and neg lect their business generally asifil could lake care of itself albeit there are many men of talent and genius belonging to this class they deserve little pity sympathy or help they are the world's business reprobates â€” hound to fail because for sooth they will hare it so ! it is the second of the aforementioned classes over whom the aogels weep and for whom the hearts of good men bleed poor lost wandering travellers they have taken the wrong road perhaps a kind father and mother when they were little children gave them the very direc tions in implicitly following which they have lost their way ! how sad ! such a boy was reared and educated for the pul pit â€” he is a third-rate preacher but would make a splendid engineer â€” he talks to a listless sleepy set of hearers every sun day such another one is in a great city up in a garret trying to eke out a scanty living and to keep his wife and children from downright starvation by writing for the press if he had staid on the farm where he was born he might now have l>eeii in the midst of plenty â€” he was not made to write books but to maul rails and hoe potatoes yon briefless poverty stricken lawyer is in that line because his father was an eminent jurist and wanted him to be one that old-maid school ma'am ought to have married that stout young tanner when she was twenty-four gone to work and let spectacles and liter ary labor alone that broken merchant ought to have been a minister â€” that min ister a merchants that lawyer a doctor â€” that doctor a lawyer but what is tin chief lesson to parents from these fail ures why learn your children all to work and if practicable bind them to some good trade â€” that is the road to health and independence there is too much so-called higher edu cation of the hands and heart â€” too many books anil high schools for poor children to make them above honest manual labor all should learn to read write and count but the clerkships and professions are too full learn them to work and they can shake their fists at grim want any day e p ii the shot inn volley the following from the hillsboro re corder goes directly to the mark and every shot tells : the national republican rail very much fears he negro race will go down under the shot gun policy of the south we are half inclined to agree with the republican we met a day or two ago half a dozen stout negro men each one mounting a shot gun and all bound into the woods to kill time or squirrels or something else ; and we meet some every hiy every negro man in the south owns a bhot gun ; and that shot gun is killing them oil as fast as idleness produces want disease and disease death this is the way die negro is going but it is by the shol gun in his own bauds ex-governor pinchback of louisiana has addressed an open letter to governor nicholls resigning his place as united states senator from that si-.iii the citizens of i.incolnfon are paying by subscription for having the river drag ged for the body of mr harrisoll i ; rice who wan drowned on the jml tilt norah's new year it was xew years eve the streets were tluonged with pedestrians the jin gle of sleigh bells was ever and anon heard and all the world seemed to have forgotten care and taken a holidav but not so there were sad faces among the merry ones the poor and wretched jost led against the gay and happy ; and this life-picture like all others had its dark back-ground looking in at the brilliantly lighted window of a confectioner stood a little girl her face blue with cold and hunger her eyes wistful and pathetic she had on a light calico dress shoes that were too large for her and a strange kind of garment half shawl half cloth so worn and patched that one could not tell its original shape or color her age was not over nine or ten yet she seemed more like a little old woman than a child there was an air of wisdom in the way she turned her head and wrinkled up her forehead and pressed her lips together as she gazed at the confectioner's candies and cakes n if she thought them all very pretty but at the same time very unsub stantial once or twice the child-nature showed itself in her eyes but was quickly followed by an expression of gravity and sorrow touching in one so young finally she turned away with a sigh and at that instant the confectioner's door opened and a lady richly dressed came out something in the child's face or looks attracted her attention she stop ped drew the shivering little figure to ward the light and scanned its curiously what is your name dear 1 she asked kindly xorah was the answer given in a low voice and with a look of wonder at the questioner xorah !" echoed the lady turning pale xorah what xorah brady ma'am oh !" and an expression partly of re lief partly of disappointment swept over the listener's face then she slipped sonic money into the child's hand and whispered : spend it as you please dear it is a xew year's gift xorab's cheeks flushed and she drew back a little proudly i can not take it ma'am she answer ed in even steady tones l'appn would be angry if i did angry that you accept a gift why so ?" because we are poor and when people give us things he says it's out of charity but is that any reason for refusing them ?" yes for papa and i are independent and had rather earn our own money the little figure straightened itself with an air of dignity almost womanly you are a strange child was the re ply and the lady looked interested and amused tell me where you live ?*' the street and number were named and then xorah raised her honest blue eyes and said softly please don't think me ungrateful ma'am you are very kind indeed only that papa has seen better days and it hurts him now to be poor or i might perhaps keep it and she handed back the money with a wist ful little glance that spoke volumes have you a mother dear question ed the other the blue eyes filled with tears xo ma'am she answered in a quivering voice mamma died three years ago why was it that a throb of pain stirred the listener's heart at these words ? what was xorab's mother to her she felt drawn toward the child she hardly knew why ; drawn too toward the dead mother and the strange proud father xorab's eyes xorab's name were like those of a sister she had lost by a separation al most worse than death she had never forgotten it and to-night the memory of that olden time softened her heart and made her pitiful toward the grief of others but all this while her carriage stood wait ing with a white-haired old gentleman inside and the coachman impatiently stamping his feet i must leave you she whispered to xorah at last longing to clasp the little figure to her breast i shall come and see you soon may i not ?*' then seeing the child hesitated to reply she added are you afraid papa will object tell him charity has nothing to do with it but it is for my own sake and because you remind me of some one 1 loved years ago that i wish to come xorah was a hospitable little soul and the beautiful lady had completely won her heart papa will be glad to see you she said simply and i too thank you dear then moved by a sudden impulse the lady stooped down and kissed her the coachman looking on rubbed his eyes and thought that per haps xorah was some princess in disguise and so she was and by a right more roy al than that of blood or money what child was that ?" questioned the white-haired old geutleman as the lady took her seat in the carriage and bade the coachman drive on some beg gar with a tale of distress that touched your sympathy ?'' he looked at her fond ly and in a manner that showed she was the one woman of the world to him sot a beggar and the lady smiled and told how norah had refused the money but the child interested me strangely she has eyes like those of the little xorah i left in ireland and for a minute i had a faint hope that my search was at last ended but ber father's name is brady and yours was o'couuell said the gentleman and it was not here but to france that he migrated i know and a touch of impatience came into her voice it was but for a minute as i said afterward i under stood how impossible it was she sighed bitterly and went on : i wonder if this is to be the punishment for my sin and that girlish sin and folly as you call it dear wife has been expiated long since was the answer let the past bury its dead do not make ynrself mis erable by raking up its ashes i am not unhappy she said softly why should i be every wish is grati fied save one â€” that of reconciliation with my parents and perhaps it is right this should be denied me has it ever occurred to you that they may be dead asked the gentleman looking at her compassionately many times she answered but i cannot make myself believe it something seems to tell ine they are living and in want oh that is because the agent we sent over to ireland told us your father had lost his property you would naturally think of him as poor after that yes and when pride is joined to pov erty the struggle is the harder father was a strange man ; stern and hauty and obstinate but under the harsh exterior hid one of the warmest hearts that ever j beat i can understand why he left ire land so suddenly and cover up all traces of i his flight lest those who had known him in | prosperity should witness his humilation i lie could not have borne that ; it would have been the added drop of bitterness that would have choked him butmoth : er was different ; so meek and gentle and was the only living person who knew how ' to manage him every one else was sure to see the worst side of his nature ah yes ! 3011 have told me of her be | fore but i cannot understand kate i why she never answered your letters you were but seventeen when you eloped ; with that villian â€” a mere child â€” and surely she might have given you some i words of help and comfort when your heart was almost broken by his baseness i true he was your wedded husband and held you by a bond stronger than that of parents ; but their silence was cruel and i cannot forgive them for it you do not know how i have tried their love my father warned me against the man my mother told me of his false hood and wickedness and i deceived be i frayed them both oh i was guilty of such base subterfuge it seemed as if a demon had entered into me and i was no longer my real self whatever they said ' only increased my obstinacy and made me more infatuated with the object of their censure besides you must remem ber my father had reason to think i rob bed hiiti in the night of my departure though the theft was committed without my knowledge and by the wretch into , whose hands i had trusted my honor and j happiness that i could have been so blinded to his real character seems im i possible now ; but he had a winning plausible manner and i was vain and foolish fond of flattery and admiration " you fled to america at once did you not and wrote home from there yes my husband's villainy was first revealed to me on board of the ship that took us over i accidently came across the money he had stolen from my father and recognized the purse that held it as one i had knitted myself i asked for an explanation and he gave it boldly gloating over the idea of what he called a just and righteoous vengeance instead of the hateful crime it seemed to me it was there i found out there had been a feud of long standing between him and my father and that it was for this he had ; married me and thus struck his enemy to the heart though the villain is dead it makes my blood boil to think of him kate but did you not mention all this in your let ters â€” the vile plot the stolen money !" yes and more too i told of my deso late condition in new york alone and friendless for as boon as we landed i fled , from the wretch whom the law had made i my husband he followed me persecut ' id me prevented my obtaining any re spectable employment ; and oh ! the ter rible life that i led those two years that i he lived it is dreadful to say it but his j death was actually a relief and they neverauswered your letters , said her husband indignantly 1 cannot understaiidjsueh vindictiveness the first one was returned unopened she answered ; of the others i never had | any tidings but i am sure they would i have forgiven me had they known it all i it may be the letters were intercepted i the suspicion has occurred to me lately j that they fell into 1113 husband's bands ; and that he re-mailed and stamped that first one to deceive me and prevent niv ..... ' writing others don't call that man your husband i kate it makes me shiver he was capa ble of anything and 1 have no doubt your suspicion was correct but surely you wrote after his death ?" i did not she replied i was so utterly heart-broken by all that had oc curred as to believe myself an outcast from love and kindness forever more you know what i suffered and how 1 went from place to place vainly seeking employment the stage was the only means of livelihood that offered itself ah ! can i ever forget from what a life you rescued me the humble ballet-girl but remember you said it was from love not gratitude that you became my wife for i am old enough to be your father kate and hal yon refused me what i craved would have adopted you as my daughter old in years but young in heart she answered if my first marriage was a wretched mistake my second is indeed blest and crowned with such happiness as i never hoped to enjoy the carriage had reached the suburbs of the city by this time and now stopped before a large house with an old-iishion ed hospitable aspect very invitiu home at last !" said the geitleman jumping out as nimbly as if he iad been younger come kate she followed and leaning on his arm went up the steps and into the house xo further allusion was made hy either side to the subject of their conversation during the drive but the thoughts of one kept continually recurring tc the child she had seen in front of the corfectioner's and when kate hillard closed her eyes in sleep that night it was with the firm re solve to see xorab's father eariy next day and find out who he was and whence he came for xorab's words xo-ah's looks seemed like an echo from the past and had in them something of the spirit she ! remembered xorab's thoughts were as fill of her as ; hers of xorah such a levely lady ! mused the child as she hurried home i don't think papa wouldhave minded 1 my taking the money if he could have [ heard all she said and seen exactly how ' she looked it is xew year's eve and â€¢ what if she were not a real lady but just some fairy about doing good i saw a nice old gentleman inside her car j riage though and a live coachman on top j i guess she's flesh and blood like the rest i only kinder and more thoughtful it was towards a wretched quarter of the city that xorah bent her steps and the tenament where she stopped was old and dilapidated and crowded with human beings she ascended the stars and found her way to a room dimly-lighted by a tallow candle the door stood open and she â– entered softly then shading her eyes with her hand she looked around there was a bed in one corner and upon that lay a man asleep poor papa she thought ; he is tired out the doctor says he ought not to work but he will and i can't help it i almost wish 1 had taken the money it would have bought a chicken and i could have made him some broth to-morrow but he wouldn't have eaten it if he knew how 1 got it oh dear it is so hard to be poor and have a sick father she bustled about a little setting the room to rights and tried to look cheerful though she was down-hearted but the tears came in spite of her when she went to the cupboard and looked iu to see what there was for breakfast only a few dry crusts and a small piece of bacon if it had not been xew year's eve their povertj would not have seemed so bitter she had gone hungry before and never com ' plained but now lookiug at her pale worn father and remembering the sad christmas they had spent heart rebelled and she almost doubted the gooduess of cod who let poor people suffer thus then her mother's sweet face rose up be fore her as if in reproach and she folded her hands together and breathed a prayer for help and comfort poor xorah ! a child in years but weighed down with a woman's cares old in trouble and the wisdom born of it it was well that she had early learned where to look forguid â– ance when sore and distressed and buf \ feted by the world i tier father did not awake and sh finally took up the bit of candle and re ! tired to an inner room hardly larger than ! a closet its only furniture was a little cot-bed into that she crept after un dressing herself and soon fell asleep she : dreamed of an engel with the face of the i beautiful lady who in some magical way ; had been changed into 1 fairy all spang les and lace the sun was nearly an hour high when she awoke the next morning though her room was still dark for it had butonelittle window high up that opened on a brick wall but she rubbed her eyes and look j ed around as if bewildered for surely some one bent over her and whispered jspftly little sister little sister she sat up in bed and she felt two arms clasp her close and warm kisses rain down on brow and lips and checks she was not afraid only wondered what it all meant and whether she was really in own little room or iu fairyland or in heaven dress quickly dear said the voice she had heard fust there is a gentle man waiting for you the voice was that of the beautiful lady and so was the form that she recognized by the dim light half believing it a dream still xorah slipped on her clothes and with her hand clasped in that of her companion opened the door of the other room then she saw the white-haired old gentleman she remembered so well and her father talking cosily together ; and if she had been puzzled and bewild ed before she was even more so now come here daughter said mr o'grady or o'connell as he was called thereafter the xew year has brought you a sister what do you mean papa v xorah stammered tell her kate whispered the white haired gentleman mr o'connell had heard the story be fore but he listened again as the sweet voice trembled in its narration and once wiped a tear furtively from her eyes my sister my own own sister cried xorah joyfully clasping kate close then in a low voice she added the last word mamma spoke was your name at this tears came into the eyes of both and mr hillard seeing them rose hasti ly and said come come kate it is time we were going your father is ready and so is xorah you can talk all you want to afterward mr o'connell's reluctance to accept his daughter's hospitality was finally over come and he consented that xorah and him self should make part of her household his pride was great and had led him to assume a false name and almost make a martyr of xorah but he had begun to have faint perception that a great deal of error and selfishness were mangled with it and was ready to make amends he soon afterward recovered his health and through mr hillard's instrumentality obtained employment at once lucrative and honorable so that he was enabled to support both himself and xorah indepen dently xorah grow move like a child and less like a woman under the new inflencesby which she was surrounded but she was none the less true and honest and her sister rejoiced to see the signs of care fade out of the young face that had once been so sadl mature but neither xorah nor kate nor mr o'connell ever forgot the day that usher ed in their new-found happiness and to them the xew year brings greater joy than any other holiday a max who saw a mule die ain't it a curious thing that nobody ever sees a mule die remarked an old teamster in g-umbert & webber's saloon xo man living ever saw a mule die i s'pose !' thus remarked mr daniels lighting a fresh cigar in 1850 i was mining on the south fork of the yuba and it came my turn to cook for my gang we took turns each week you know well i was going to show how economical i could run the commissary i went and bought a peck of dried apples ; they were all stuck together iu a lump but i got em jam med into a pot poured in some water and started the fire presently a fevr of em began to rise up to the top of the pot and so i skimmed em off and put em in a pan pretty soon some more bulged up and i skimmed them off and put em in a pan the first thing i knew after i had skimmed that blasted pot a while i had to get another pan and then another and by the time i got four pans heaped up dang my skin if there wasn't more apples in the pans than there was iu the pot that is i thought so at the time i kept getting more pans and buckets and lard cans and all the time plumb frightened death for fear some of the boys would come in and see how extravagant i was for i had been blowin how cheap i could run the mess the blasted apples still kept comin out of the pot i put some papers on the floor and covered em with fruit and by jove the place looked like a santa clara fruit drying establishment and the pot was still bilin full what has that got to do with a mule dyin ?' wait a minute i'm comin to the mule finally i got desperate and dump ed over twelve bushels of the apples back of the cabin behind a tree iu about an hour i heard a devil of a noise and ran out what do you suppose i found ? why a four hundred dollar mule kicking in the agonies of death the apples were all gone ; the mule nearly so he was swelled up like a balloon and the first thing i knew he busted pledge my word gentlemen he exploded like a giant pow der blast and brought the whole cam to the place i kept still ; they could not find the mule and it cost em 1 to ad vertise a reward for him in the sacramen to union about two weeks afterwards they caught a couple of greasers hauging round and they put it up that they stole the mule so they hung em i was there but i did not say a word for fear the boys would find out how extravagant i had run the commissary let's have something the holston annual mktuodist con pbrbkcb adopted a petition to the gen eral conference of the methodist episcopal church south w hich meets next may ask ing that the name of the church be changed to episcopal methodist church it is prob able that the general conference will also be asked to invite the xorthern methodist church to withdraw from the south not withstanding the settlement lately made by commissions of the two boica rev j i miller's lecture ve find in the shcpherdstown reg ister the following abstract which we commend to the attention of the voun a morbid sensitiveness sometimes pre vents the truth from being spoken we are pleased to see such men as revs miller and fry striking such successful blows at sonic of the secret crimes of the day h at a meeting of the young men's christian association of staunton va on tuesday night of last week rev j i miller principal of the staunton female seminary delivered an address upon the subject of integrity from which we extract the following plain and wholesome truths and we hope that every young lady who reads this article wltt profit by it another foe to integrity is the low estimate placed upon purity of princi ple and of life in the young and es pecially the young men there are those who not only countenance the idea but will contend that we ought not to expect that the young men will fail to sow their wild oats and that one species of this oats is the departure from the path of purity yes there are men mature in life men who from their general character family connec tions standing in society and even the church we ought to expect better things of are not slow to give currency to the most degrading most demoraliz ing declaration that all young men are guilty of this form of immorality a declaration which the speaker with all the earnestness of his nature pro nounced an infamous slander and yet this opinion has found such general currency that young ladies have come to the conclusion that if they were to wait till the hand of a mnn of pure principle and life was offered them they would not be blessed with a life partner if this were true said the speaker i would say to you with all the inten sity of my nature live and die unbles sed with the love and companionship of a husband rather than wed moral and often physical loathsomeness and here i must be indulged with a remark or two strictly germain to the subject but which from false notions of delicacy are too ofteu suppressed it is this though i have the highest respect and confidence in the integrity the virture of woman as a class yet it has often been a matter of inexplicable mystery to mc that young girls of un sullied purity themselves will coun tenance yea encourage the attentions welcome to their parlors and tables young men whom they can but know are debauchees my advice to every lady is shun such characters as yon would shun the infected district of the plague or association with the leper give them to understand in no unmistakable way that you will shun them as they icould ehun and despite you guilty of o like sin nothing does more to break down the integrity of our young men in this fearful phase of it than the encouragement given by otherwise good people of a commu nity to the notion that such deviation from virtue's path must be expected in them ; and worse that young ladies pure as the virgin snow in life and character will knowingly smile on and encourage the attentions of such had i a daughter i would a thousand times rather see her arrayed in the drapery of death than that she should be united in the tenderest dearest of human ties to such a beastialised spec imen of humanity from my heart of hearts i pity the young bride whose snowy attire in which she is led to the altar is strikingly signifi cant of the purity of her heart but who stands there to be joined to one whose low views and base practices more truly fits him for the compan ionship only of a very different class of characters a man with such views and life can never be fitted for the high and ennobling companion ship of an intelligent refined virtu ous loving woman but while a deep ardent sympathy for the noble daugh ters of our land tempts me to linger on a phase of my topic so intimately connected with their dearest interests for time not to say highest hopes for eternity duty to my audience requires me to advance rev j b anthony of mt pleas ant n c has accepted a call to the giles charge and will enter on his duties at once his address wil 1 , therefore be newport giles co va rev anthony's ministrations in oth er places has been blessed with gooi results he is a close sudent ; and makes faithful use of the catechism in preparing the young for church mem bership the neglect of catechisatiot in this synod for so long a time has rendered the efforts in this direction made during the last few years a dif ficult and slow work may the bless ing of god rest on bio anthony labors 0 c paper arstriax cvtiioi.ursm._the tndspend cnk ays the old catholics of austria have just been granted legal recognition by the minister of education and worship rhey made application for recognition sev eral years ago but the government refused to accede to the request unless they would acknowledge themselves as sccedcrs from the roman catholic church-an admission which they were of course loth to make l-ii which they have finally made and their congregations whicli are more numerous than one would expect have been placed on an independent footing the ocrman cor respondent of the london guardian says in the northern corner of bohemia at and about warnsdorf there is a very compact body of 25.000 old catholics vienna and its dependencies number another 7000 and at ried and steier on the bavarian border 5000 more in vienna the barrator chnrck has lieen given for their use very latch two austrian priests have turned their backs on their home 0 has otmn the ouf catholics at breslau ; and the other a ca thedral preacher at linz has got married iu breslau but of priests at work in austria in the old catholic cause there cannot be more than half a dozen the stah ix tiik east a correspon dent of the philadelphia inquirer corrects a common mistake in regard to the star in the kast and the usual manner of christ mas decorations in our homes he says : owing to bad punctuation in the sacred text the magi or wise men who are also described as the wise men of the east are made to say for we have seen his star in the east ;" whereas it should read for we in the east have seen his star the star was seen in their west they journeyed westward toward judea from their eastern clinics moreover the word translated star is a misnomer it really means a meteor or bright luminous object a pillar of tire one tradition speaks of it as a lri gantic cross of tire the latter symbol has been sometimes adopted in our churches and is not only appropriate but symbolical it may be placed either in the eastern or western portion of the church but no star of greens should be tolerated albemarle and chesapeake canal donn piatt in a recent letter to the cin cinnatti enquirer says the huron disaster has developed the fact heretofore unknown to the country and of course neglected by the government that from chesapeake bay to the south end of pamlico sound there is an inland sea and river naviga tion now open to vessels of not over five hundred tons by which all the dangers of cape hatteras can be avoided an ex penditure of a hundred thousand dollars on the part of the government in dredg ing a few channels would open this route to vessels of the heavier tonage and following the line of rivers and sounds connecting with them the gulf of mexico can be reached the advantages to bo gained are great iu the way of trade but the important fact is that with this im provement a long line of dangerous coast could be guarded by iron-dads that are found not to be seaworthy torpedoes and the safe cheap transportation of troops provisions and materials of war provided and so escape the heavy expenditure of costly fortifications for which we have no guns and a navy for which we have no money nor it appears brain or honesty we sincerely hope that the attention of congress as well as the country will be attracted to this development and that measures will be inaugurated to take ad vantage of the facilities offered the fede ral government for inland navigation in eastern carolina they are unquestion ably of national importance as will some day be found out â€” ral observer a wicked hoax a fun loving brooklyn man removed the setting from his big gold ring the oth er day leaving a marked and decided va cancy he gets on a street car holds his hand so that the ring must be seen and pretty soon a man bends forward and re marks : excuse me sir but you have lost the setting from your ring so 1 have replied the owner as he looks around on the floor every passenger began to peer around and the man who made the discovery finally asks was it a valuable set ?" it was a thousand dollar diamond is the calm reply there is another move on the part ol the passengers some look along the seat some under it and some make a dive for pear buttons aud other small objects when did you miss it asked the fust man as the search weakened a little a year aud a half ago when i was at i tending camp-meeting in illinois !" is the sad reply then every passenger straighteus up every eye looks into vacancy and not the faintest smile can be seen on any face a i person boarding the car just then would j wonder what great man in the city had just died and if the passengers wen on , their way to take a sad forwell look at \ his remains materials are being collected for a h og ranln nf bishop 1 nes by msdaj filter the carolina watchman